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Post by Vermin King on Feb 6, 2020 10:31:18 GMT -9
I have some ideas on the Cyberpunk version. Think IMSA fenders in a red/yellow/black color scheme
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Post by Vermin King on Mar 3, 2020 9:21:14 GMT -9
For the Cyberpunk Cybertruck, I had ideas that I was trying to incorporate into the Cybertruck Sport, but it was very difficult to picture what had to be done, so I am doing an intermediate version, Lamborghini-ized. Specifically, the Gallardo. In place of the vault on the Cybertruck, I'll have the engine compartment deck between those wing-thingies (the vault walls above that shoulder line). Yes, I have no idea what they are called on sports cars that have them. As I am getting this intermediate version done, I will try to get it to look 'right' for those who want an EZ-Bild.
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Post by Vermin King on Mar 3, 2020 13:30:07 GMT -9
Sometimes, it is really refreshing to do a quick and dirty throw together project. I plan on building this stupid thing tonight. I present the illegitimate love child of the Cybertruck Sport and the Lamborghini Gallardo I used a lot of the graphics from the Bilsport Jr Gallardo, and seeing how they did things created a few of my own to match up, and not look terrible on the Cybertruck Sport. I'm a bit anxious to see this built Not very Cyberpunk, yet, but doesn't look too bad
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Post by Vermin King on Mar 4, 2020 4:53:10 GMT -9
Way too pointy of a nose. Reminds me of an 80's Camaro. Next iteration will have a snub nose EDIT -- Strange how fixing the nose almost took as much time as throwing the original version of this together.
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Post by Vermin King on Mar 4, 2020 11:47:24 GMT -9
And making it blue took even longer... Just wanted a different color...
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Post by Vermin King on Mar 4, 2020 14:43:29 GMT -9
This is what I want to do with the engine compartment, but without doing fender extensions, I think it would look silly. The engine cover is just too narrow, and running the taillights up the rear slant makes the slanty side panels way too wide. It may not look right with the wide fenders, either EDIT -- A different year would help. Instead of this go with something like this
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Post by Vermin King on Mar 6, 2020 9:38:10 GMT -9
Not much progress to show on this. I don't know why I want to have the front end and rear from the same year Gallardo, but I decided to go with the 2013 model. I finished the back end, but other than a quick Hue change on the front, I haven't done anything on it.
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Post by Vermin King on Mar 7, 2020 6:13:49 GMT -9
Whew! I turned the latest version of the Yellow snub nose into a blue one without saving the yellow one. I'm glad I posted it here. Got some more work done on the blue one last night, trying to get the front usable. Put too much effort into trying to keep this Cybertruck-like. I was looking at Volker's Racepaper Touringwagens ( but I don't like how his fender extensions are boxes that glue on, not part of the body itself )and Keroliver's L'atelier models, www.maquettes-papier.net/forumenpapier/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=9309 . I think I am going to develop a totally different body for this, and just do a Cybertruck greenhouse that glues on top of the body. It would simplify things to no end. As far as the body, I want to give a nod to Cyberpunk 2077, and have the sides similar to the poster I think whoever designed it for the game was influenced by Porsches ( looking at the headlights and cabin shape), with a nod to 60's muscle cars and Lemans racers. Whenever I decide on a final design, I want it to look more exotic and clean, though I will probably do a darker grimmer version, too. I really like that rear fender swoop. And since it looks very similar to the Investigator's Bugatti front fenders, I think it should be do-able, and not too fiddly. But to gain insight on how I want to handle things, I think I might build one of Keroliver's Porsche 935s
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Post by Vermin King on Mar 8, 2020 8:29:49 GMT -9
Well, razzum frazzum. My IT guy wanted me to message him after noon before I head over there. Still waiting. Computers all packed up so can't work on anything. Yesterday was wasted waiting on a plumber. Today waiting on the IT guy. How do you spell 'gorrem'? Yeah, I am watching Firefly while I wait
EDIT --
And he is out of commission with a migraine...
At least I didn't waste a whole afternoon
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Post by shep on Mar 8, 2020 9:49:56 GMT -9
Well, razzum frazzum. My IT guy wanted me to message him after noon before I head over there. Still waiting. Computers all packed up so can't work on anything. Yesterday was wasted waiting on a plumber. Today waiting on the IT guy. How do you spell 'gorrem'? Yeah, I am watching Firefly while I wait It's "gorram", as far as I know. And talking about obstacles in doing something, I was at my doctor last Friday, among other things because of a hurting back, and he diagnosed me with sciatica. So, I have to take painkillers, and decide myself whether sitting, lying, or standing is best for me...
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Post by Vermin King on Mar 8, 2020 16:49:09 GMT -9
Here's the 2013 in yellow. I took a design cue from AirDave's Gallardo on a different way to do the front end. It was interesting today going through different models of this vehicle. Different thingson each, and they all look like Gallardo's. Wider, thinner, taller and they all look okay, so I decided to do the easiest one, the Bilsport Jr one and tweak it into a better looking model. I hope it works. I might have time to build it tonight. Hopefully tomorrow night I will be able to finish cleaning up the keroliver Porsche 935 Lemans and start building. Then I can cobble together a Gallardo with fender flares and then slap a Cybertruck greenhouse on it and fix door lines.
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Post by Vermin King on Mar 9, 2020 4:44:55 GMT -9
Building did not go well. Attempting to score wasn't going to work with my wrist/hand, so I attempted left-handed. I know it is a matter of practice, but it wasn't good. I think I can do the folds okay without having my scoring errors too obvious. I'm not even going to try cutting left handed. Maybe I will be up to it at lunch I was going to also print my white version of Keroliver's Porsche, except when I pulled it up to print, I hadn't finished my clean up on the C-pillar and door. I didn't want the back end to have Keroliver's ad for his website (he should have put that on the bottom, not the back end). So I threw together a 935 back end. I think I did a pretty good job on the hood vents EDIT -- He did mirrored tires on one side that I also fixed. I am hoping things become intuitive as I am building this. There are a couple places where things don't look like they line up right. Maybe that section of part should be a tab. Dunno EDIT #2 -- Poor photo, but with a super-sharp blade cut it out and have it ready to glue. I did glue the inner wing things. The grill needs to be just a tad longer. It should work, but would work better with a few more pixels EDIT #3 -- Keep in mind that this Gallardo is scaled to be a base for a Cybertruck. It is way too big to be a gaming scale Lambo
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Post by Vermin King on Mar 9, 2020 11:31:36 GMT -9
I hated leaving it like that, so between calls, I'm gluing a tab here, a tab there. I now understand why Dave had such long tabs on his Gallardo grill. The little tabs I have are going to be a nightmare. Although, I might move the tabs to the front of the body instead of the top of the grill
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Post by Vermin King on Mar 10, 2020 4:31:03 GMT -9
Funny thing. The Cybertruck/Gallardo hybrid, even with its long nose, looks better than the Bilsport Jr Gallardo. Proportions are all wrong. I can't figure out why the design I did seems mostly right, but the one mostly stock looks so blocky, proportioned wrong, and not even attractive enough to give to a neighborhood kid.
I should have built AirDave's Gallardo or Wongday's or this one I saw on Pintrest that I haven't found a source for. They more than likely would have looked better.
On the other hand, I was so fed up with this, I got some work done on oxen and I started work on turning the Kawasaki into a paper model.
EDIT --
There is probably something to note. On those three other models, there is a strip of fender outside the headlights, which keeps the headlights in position, but doesn't mess up the nose proportions. I will have to look at that again
EDIT #2 --
I think I probably am more frustrated with this than I should be. Probably because I did it with my injured hand and doing work-around's. I probably should take a photo and show why I am frustrated. As I was going to come up with my own design anyway, it really doesn't matter. And it does point out that on my original design, the odd nose wasn't something I did, but part of the model that I was trying to use part of. Positive take-away's -- shortening the nose and making it rounder helped, My grill and tail look pretty good, and the wheels I developed look good. Just think how many iterations it took me to get a Cybertruck I was satisfied with.
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Post by Vermin King on Mar 10, 2020 9:56:36 GMT -9
Okay, there are times I've said that some of my models look better in person than the photos. This is the first time I have to say the photos look better than the real model And you can see my repaint of the keroliver Porsche sitting on the sidelines. I just got off a half-hour phone call with an agent that didn't have a ghost of a chance in accomplishing anything, but I had to let him go on and on and on and on, so I scored the Porsche and cut it out and got it mostly built in half an hour. And it looks pretty good so far. I was on my cell phone, so I couldn't take photos yet, but soon. Right now I have to figure out which of these S-holes are going to get my vote in the primary... EDIT -- And yes, when I mentioned above that I hoped my questions would work themselves out during the build, they have. Fit on this has been excellent so far. Keroliver works with metasequoia, then imports to Pepakura Designer, then exports to Easy PDF. I don't know why he doesn't release pdo's And no, I still don't know which sleeze-bucket is getting my vote.
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Post by Vermin King on Mar 10, 2020 12:45:20 GMT -9
Well, I am an idiot -- surprize, huh
This is a Porsche 935, and I liked the looks of it (after losing the bulk of the graphics), so I decided to build it, even though I needed to cobble together a back end.
It turns out I have a total of seven 935's on this computer. I could have modified the back end of any of those and saved myself some trouble.
BTW, if one builds this little fellow, don't glue the extensions under the doors together until you attach the body, There's a spot under the front of the door extension visible from the side where the tab sticks up above the lower body tab. Oops.
The rear fender extensions as AirDave did his Newman 935 would actually be better for the Cyberpunk vehicle, maybe.
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Post by Vermin King on Mar 10, 2020 18:56:53 GMT -9
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Post by Vermin King on Mar 11, 2020 12:04:16 GMT -9
Okay, I took Keroliver's hood/grill and redesigned it to be a front end on the easy Gallardo/Cybertruck hybrid. Still need to figure out how I will do the headlights and the rest of the hood, but I think the extra width and shortening of the front overhang will improve the look of this guy EDIT --
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Post by Vermin King on Mar 11, 2020 16:30:52 GMT -9
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Post by Vermin King on Mar 11, 2020 19:03:44 GMT -9
Razzum frazzum. Wasn't paying attention to the battery on the laptop. Lost my work for the wide-fender back end. Still have the front.
I decided after building the 935, that to keep things 'true', it would be best to build the basic version and have the wide-fenders done as an add-on. Doing it this way should yield a stronger build with less likelihood of errors compounding. Recessed engine deck will also be an optional way of building. It appears that the wide front will be one piece, wide rear one piece and the recessed engine deck as one piece. On the options page, there will be extra-wide tires for the front and extra-, extra-wide tires for the rear. To use them you will have to cut out the wheels on the basic version to allow them to fit, or you can just use the regular treads, or you can just do like the one above and omit the 3d wheels.
Once done, then I need to figure out a 'cyber' paint scheme. I got a little lucky with the side textures on this. I was looking at how the Bilsport Jr Gallardo did the indent. Then looked at AirDave's, and played with it, trying not to use gradients. I think it looks pretty convincing for no gradients. I still like the idea of a red/yellow/black version, but if I can pull off the Kawasaki, I think I will try to do a second paint job on this to match it.
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Post by Vermin King on Mar 12, 2020 4:20:59 GMT -9
Well, it is probably a good thing I lost my tail work. During the night, I woke up with an idea for a simpler version of the fenders. Except I lost my panels I had separated from the body.
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Post by Vermin King on Mar 16, 2020 16:45:03 GMT -9
I shouldn't have set these aside for so long, but I did make progress Let's see how much progress I make in the next half hour, maybe
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Post by Vermin King on Mar 17, 2020 6:00:29 GMT -9
I'll do some checking of files over lunch, but here's the option page, not scrubbed yet
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Post by Vermin King on Mar 17, 2020 16:51:29 GMT -9
Measurements seem to work out. Each of the pieces appears to be able to be built and assembled, but build order will be important, if using all the options. So, it is printed off, and I just keep looking at it trying to determine the best order to build it. The big thing is whether the engine cover should be cut free ( I think not ), or just cut loose. The base models wheels will be ignored, but I am not sure whether attaching the base grill before attaching the new nose will help or hurt. Attaching it will make the whole model stronger, and will help with alignment, but I question if it will get in the way. Getting a bit of brain fuzz looking at it. I think I will come back to it tomorrow.
On the bike (trike?), I plan on doing a simple 2d version without much change from my current image. I wish there was a top view of this thing. I would like to do an advanced version similar to some of the Japanese children's motorcycle models, only with the body tapering at the front, with the leading edge the contact point for the front tire/ handlebars piece.
And if the test build on the car goes well, I need to come up with a paint scheme. Throw some ideas at me please
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Post by Vermin King on Mar 19, 2020 7:53:31 GMT -9
I did print and score the car. Maybe between calls, and another webinar, I can start the test build. Still a bit of brain fuzz, so I don't think I want to monkey with any file tweaks.
As in the build of the Porsche, I am hoping that actually building this will help me determine the best build order.
I wish that on the base car, I had printed on 'Vivid', rather than 'Natural'. Printing this set on Vivid really makes the colors pop
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Post by Vermin King on Mar 20, 2020 10:27:33 GMT -9
I decided to do this one with the extra-wide tires, so I cut out the tires from the main body, but should have made my folds before doing so. The vertical parts of the engine compartment need larger tabs, similar to the way I did the tabs connecting the front end to the sides. Basically larger tabs with a fold line. My less-than-perfect spot actually was able to be fixed by applying needlenose pliars. I am trying this with the base car's front end installed, even though it will be covered over. Starting in the middle, glue one tab, then the other, then go back and do the next one on the first side. Just alternate tabs until you get to the fenders. Then connect underneath. I should finish work early today, so I should be able to get back to this later this afternoon.
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Post by Vermin King on Mar 21, 2020 10:16:39 GMT -9
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Post by Vermin King on Mar 21, 2020 10:18:54 GMT -9
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Post by Vermin King on Mar 22, 2020 5:28:46 GMT -9
Judging by the lack of response, I think I will shelve the deluxe version, and attempt to make the base car more cyberpunkish. On the cycle, it will just have to be a standee, but the way I painted it, it should be fairly easy to do a couple recolors. My thought is to make the car more closely resemble the cycle.
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Post by Vermin King on Mar 22, 2020 18:35:44 GMT -9
Still looking for car ideas. hint, hint Besides a couple versions of the Kawasaki J Concept, I think I might also do a BMW
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